Health and Health Care As Social Problems - Couverture souple

 
9780742528574: Health and Health Care As Social Problems
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 074252857X ISBN 13 : 9780742528574
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2003

Synopsis

This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Conrad is a literary critic and cultural historian. His books include The Everyman History of English Literature; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
074252857X
ISBN 13 
9780742528574
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Éditeur
Conrad Peter, Leiter Valerie
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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